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chris is a unique person. this past april, chris and myself, and a few other professionals were supposed to do a dedicated t.a. to some communities in parts of eastern europe and russia. we were all scheduled to leave on a sunday or monday night, and chris says something about flying together. i managed to have those fine through german airspace. do you remember the volcano? single-handedly, chris trained professionals through eastern europe and russia all by himself because he was the only faculty member who made it. he is the kind of professional will show up, regardless. [applause] >> i appreciate it, thank you. that was truly an interesting expense. i'm glad to be here with you. i can hear myself ago, so i'm not concerned whether those in the back can hear me. let me talk a little about research. many of you thought they would check out. i'm really pleased to see that many of you have shown up. research is important, and for a variety of reasons. i will not go through them all here. but as the field of chi
chris is a unique person. this past april, chris and myself, and a few other professionals were supposed to do a dedicated t.a. to some communities in parts of eastern europe and russia. we were all scheduled to leave on a sunday or monday night, and chris says something about flying together. i managed to have those fine through german airspace. do you remember the volcano? single-handedly, chris trained professionals through eastern europe and russia all by himself because he was the only...
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"the baltimore sun" labeled chris van hollen as a rising star. it was 2002 that he was elected to congress, beating some powerful democratic competitors. in the last two cycles, he helped democrats gain 50 seats. congressman van hollen is at the center of the storm. if democrats retain control of the house, he will reap much of the credit, and if they do not, well -- following his presentation, the floor will be open to questions. this is a traditional news conference, but we will give to each questioner -- when you have the microphone, please see your name, organization, and your question. many thanks to those who have --anized to the's event today's events. we also want to thank the national press club president and newsmaker committee chairman for jumping through many hoops for making sure to date's event has happened. also, richard is doing the microphones is an enormous help. the national press club this honor to present congressman chris van hollen. >> thank you very much, and it is great be with all of you. thank you for say -- for taking
"the baltimore sun" labeled chris van hollen as a rising star. it was 2002 that he was elected to congress, beating some powerful democratic competitors. in the last two cycles, he helped democrats gain 50 seats. congressman van hollen is at the center of the storm. if democrats retain control of the house, he will reap much of the credit, and if they do not, well -- following his presentation, the floor will be open to questions. this is a traditional news conference, but we will...
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do we have an issue with that, chris? >> it makes reference to the budgets. >> i do not have a fundamental problem with that. if we were to take the performance measures and specifically identified them under sublet one -- sub bullet one as a that is where we want you to go. that is a very specific recommendation. we note they need increased fiscal support and we will identify what that is in the body of the reports. but now we have given a clear benchmark that we can come back to in a year and say, how are we doing? does that bridge both the areas? >> putting the number back in is a great idea. >> this is recommending that we authorize that the appropriate the full amount that was authorized. at the very least, we can recommend that. >> we do not know whether the full amount -- what is the basis for the authorization. both congressional authorization, out of the air. i like david idea of tying it to something. if there is an independent academic or basis for estimating what the real number is, otherwise, we're picking a
do we have an issue with that, chris? >> it makes reference to the budgets. >> i do not have a fundamental problem with that. if we were to take the performance measures and specifically identified them under sublet one -- sub bullet one as a that is where we want you to go. that is a very specific recommendation. we note they need increased fiscal support and we will identify what that is in the body of the reports. but now we have given a clear benchmark that we can come back to...
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i'm not aware of any specific conversations that we've had with some of the chris mentioned. obviously there's -- countries mentioned. obviously something has cropped up in different conversations that we've had, citing one in the secretary's call last week with president karzai. they did talk about wikileaks and she asked the president what his perspective on it was. i'll take the question as to whether we've had conversations along those lines, encouraging others to consider, you know, their own potential prosecutions. >> tom there is a bilateral between the united states and arnl tina. -- argentina. you can talk about the topics, sop of the -- some of the things that will be included in the conversation? >> as you know, the secretary has herself traveled to arnl tina and it will be -- argentina and it will be an opportunity for her to follow up both on bilateral and regional issues. with argentina and her counterpart on -- and obviously among of the things we'll be taking note of is the current situation with respect to the pro motion of democracy in the region -- promotio
i'm not aware of any specific conversations that we've had with some of the chris mentioned. obviously there's -- countries mentioned. obviously something has cropped up in different conversations that we've had, citing one in the secretary's call last week with president karzai. they did talk about wikileaks and she asked the president what his perspective on it was. i'll take the question as to whether we've had conversations along those lines, encouraging others to consider, you know, their...
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guest: mitch daniels and chris christie. chris christie has just been extraordinary. to go into new jersey, the state outside of perhaps california or illinois, that has been the most mis-governor did recent years and has the most powerful public sector political complex, and to go in and balance the budget when he has and has been able to bring trenton to heal and the teachers' union, extremely powerful, to heal, in six months, is just an extraordinary accomplishment. mitch daniels, also extremely impressive. circumstances much less dire. he did not take office in the midst of a budgetary crisis, but also, like christie, have build a constituency for a limited government conservative than -- conservatism. has slimmed down the budget. and daniels tells his people all the time, we have one goal -- we want to increase the net the pole -- disposable income of the hoosiers in here in indiana. i would get some complaints now. i did see the movie. that is going to be the goal of government. i think that is a very good -- i think republicans nationally can take that admoniti
guest: mitch daniels and chris christie. chris christie has just been extraordinary. to go into new jersey, the state outside of perhaps california or illinois, that has been the most mis-governor did recent years and has the most powerful public sector political complex, and to go in and balance the budget when he has and has been able to bring trenton to heal and the teachers' union, extremely powerful, to heal, in six months, is just an extraordinary accomplishment. mitch daniels, also...
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[applause] >> folks, chris newland is running a conference somewhere else. he suggested he might not be here. i said he is the only speaker in the country to teach research. where people olein for reported as a trainer, we need that. >> my son is leaning forward in the car so i will take that with a grain of salt. >> we have the ambassador coming in at 11:15. i will invite you to take a 15- minute break and we look forward to seeing you in about 50 minutes. -- in about 15 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> saturday marks the fifth anniversary of correcting katrina. shepherd smith will be among those taking -- talking about challenges faced by journalists who covered the storm and its aftermath. you can watch this event live on c-span at 6:30 p.m. eastern. >> join our conversation on the american revolution, the making of the constitution, and the importance of historical study next sunday with an historian and pulitzer prize winner. that is live for three hours with you
[applause] >> folks, chris newland is running a conference somewhere else. he suggested he might not be here. i said he is the only speaker in the country to teach research. where people olein for reported as a trainer, we need that. >> my son is leaning forward in the car so i will take that with a grain of salt. >> we have the ambassador coming in at 11:15. i will invite you to take a 15- minute break and we look forward to seeing you in about 50 minutes. -- in about 15...
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but we also have it in the states with chris christie, who is a hero for taxpayers in new jersey. not an easy state. it is not a state -- democratic house, democratic assembly and senate in new jersey. and he stared down and tackled the teachers' union and the government employees union and wrestled down and bought the budget into balance without a single tax increase. the governor of virginia did the same thing. we see it at the state level where they have to balance the budget each year, that you can in fact rain in spending. talking about a series of recommendations -- i testified before that commission that is supposed to recommend both tax increases and spending restraint. i would like to make the case -- if you put tax increases on the table -- we have seen it at the national level and the state level, if a politician says i am up for some tax increase and budget restraint, we did this with president bush 41 in 1990. remember, they went out to andrews air force base. they came back promising tax increases and spending restraint. we got the tax increases. those were very real
but we also have it in the states with chris christie, who is a hero for taxpayers in new jersey. not an easy state. it is not a state -- democratic house, democratic assembly and senate in new jersey. and he stared down and tackled the teachers' union and the government employees union and wrestled down and bought the budget into balance without a single tax increase. the governor of virginia did the same thing. we see it at the state level where they have to balance the budget each year, that...
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chris dodd -- the money he takes, as far as the lobbying, working behind the scenes to take any teeth out of that bill. to kill it. the senators and his own party debate maria cantwell -- they set up a watch on him so he could not put a substitute in. one democratic senator, congressman, him and geithner and schumer and the rest of those crooks -- that is the problem. that is why the american people don't trust our government. host: you have given us a lot to work with. i want to use this as a jumping off point for part of the piece that looks at congress and influence of lobbying. the magazine blew out this quote. lobbying industry is the true fourth branch of government. guest: the logging industry spent $3.5 billion -- lobbying industry spent about $3.5 billion. it is really a record. it has been steadily growing over the past 30 or 40 years. just one small index. it amounts to something over a million dollars for every hour that congress was in session. the single largest lobbing into the was the chamber of congress that spend something like $130 million, which is more than the co
chris dodd -- the money he takes, as far as the lobbying, working behind the scenes to take any teeth out of that bill. to kill it. the senators and his own party debate maria cantwell -- they set up a watch on him so he could not put a substitute in. one democratic senator, congressman, him and geithner and schumer and the rest of those crooks -- that is the problem. that is why the american people don't trust our government. host: you have given us a lot to work with. i want to use this as a...
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. >> my name is chris collins with amfar. thank you for the presentations. maybe there is some overlap with the question we just heard. my question was going to be why are we having, framing the conversation around the ways in which petfar is a liability rather than having the conversation about how pepfar is a huge opportunity going forward? i'll give a couple of examples. as todd said, pepfar has been enormously successful. on a diplomatic as well as humanitarian level. it's an incredible foundation for what the president wants to don the global health initiative. i would argue that you can't acmplish goals if you're going to flatline the fndational program of that response. maternal and child health a key focus for ghi. hiv is a cause of death among women and the knock-on effects in child treatnt. the science is allowing us to change the conversation. we are going to have a microbicide in a couple of years. there is a new movement to make treatment more efficient. finally, leverage. the investments inpepfar give us many opportunities to increase our diplo
. >> my name is chris collins with amfar. thank you for the presentations. maybe there is some overlap with the question we just heard. my question was going to be why are we having, framing the conversation around the ways in which petfar is a liability rather than having the conversation about how pepfar is a huge opportunity going forward? i'll give a couple of examples. as todd said, pepfar has been enormously successful. on a diplomatic as well as humanitarian level. it's an...
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. -- chris hill was ambassador as we worked through our relationship. ryan crocker was there when we were still executing a largely military strategy. each of those conditions were different. the interest in the united states during a particular stage in our involvement in iraq was different. but jim jeffreys we hope he will succeed just as chris hill did. >> do you expect him to be effective in negotiating with the government? >> yes, that is why we nominated him. >> in negotiating with the next government? >> we expected jim jeffreys to be just as effective as hill and crocker. >> have you ever named in ambassador expecting them not to be effective? [laughter] i asked because it appears that president chavez does not think your ambassador designate to venezuela does not continue to be -- >> and we continue our conversation with venezuela. we believe that there a polymer, if confirmed by the set, will be -- we believe that larry palmer is confirmed by the senate, will be an effective senate -- effective ambassador. >> what is the answer to this questio
. -- chris hill was ambassador as we worked through our relationship. ryan crocker was there when we were still executing a largely military strategy. each of those conditions were different. the interest in the united states during a particular stage in our involvement in iraq was different. but jim jeffreys we hope he will succeed just as chris hill did. >> do you expect him to be effective in negotiating with the government? >> yes, that is why we nominated him. >> in...
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. >> thank you very much, chris. i am looking at the list of all the people up who are going to be -- there we are. i am not certain that this list reflects the order in which you are appearing. please give your name and organization that you represent and present your statement. thank you very much for contributing to our understanding today. >> members of the commission, i am senior staff at a national consumer advocacy organization. we have already submitted written comments. we urge the commission to recommend the immediate shutdown of the bp atlantic facility until it is deemed safe. we would like to bring to your attention -- until its problems are fixed, it is a ticking time bomb. it is an accident waiting to happen. i want -- this is akin to the bigger commission. -- the baker commission. this is a company wide problem. i would like to discuss bp. bait -- bp and branches, one of the world's deepest oil and gas facilities in a production without proper documentation. an internal e-mail acknowledged the system
. >> thank you very much, chris. i am looking at the list of all the people up who are going to be -- there we are. i am not certain that this list reflects the order in which you are appearing. please give your name and organization that you represent and present your statement. thank you very much for contributing to our understanding today. >> members of the commission, i am senior staff at a national consumer advocacy organization. we have already submitted written comments. we...
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. >> this is chris thompson. i have a nonprofit. we do use social networking to gather information to verify urgent incidents. the question of ownership of data and privacy, we are using the information. if we locate a photograph of an event that has confirmed the hospital has collapsed, we are collecting those and putting them on another site. that may or may not violate the privacy of individual who posted it. the photographs are owned by the person who posted it. it would be helpful if folks are providing that information and allow us to do that, if they can perhaps post something there that says that we can use their content. right now, we're using the common-sense approach of if the disaster is bigger than the individual. if an issue comes up later, we will address it in. we're trying to honor the privacy of individuals. it would be helpful if there was a policy of that nature during a catastrophic disaster. >> i think that flicker does that. >> you can specify the type of licensing you want on the content. we're just about out
. >> this is chris thompson. i have a nonprofit. we do use social networking to gather information to verify urgent incidents. the question of ownership of data and privacy, we are using the information. if we locate a photograph of an event that has confirmed the hospital has collapsed, we are collecting those and putting them on another site. that may or may not violate the privacy of individual who posted it. the photographs are owned by the person who posted it. it would be helpful if...
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now, counterinsurgency, as cr ned by general chris dodmet as defined by general mcchrystal, is going reasonably well. the hold afghanistan forces and build and transition afghan government is problematic. >> could you explain in a sentence or two of what the difference is between counterinsurgency and counter- terrorism, for the people who do not spend all day working on this stuff? >> counterinsurgency is mission heavy, protecting the population to install a viable government. counter-terrorism is a military approach to doing business, and it is to kill people who would attack the united states. >> so when we went then, we are talking about doing counter- terrorism against al-qaeda. could you talk a little bit about how many al-qaeda operatives are in afghanistan, according to the best estimates we have? >> our best estimates are between 50-100 al-qaeda operatives, in afghanistan, and somewhere between 300 + in neighboring pakistan. >> so we are spending billions of dollars per year in afghanistan on between 50-100 al-qaeda operatives? >> that is correct. >> just checking. clearly,
now, counterinsurgency, as cr ned by general chris dodmet as defined by general mcchrystal, is going reasonably well. the hold afghanistan forces and build and transition afghan government is problematic. >> could you explain in a sentence or two of what the difference is between counterinsurgency and counter- terrorism, for the people who do not spend all day working on this stuff? >> counterinsurgency is mission heavy, protecting the population to install a viable government....
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the gulf contributions from the national security division led by assistant attorney general david chris and attorney's office in minnesota, alabama and the southern district of california. all of them are here with me on the stage today. i would now like to turn it over to the fbi executive director for the national security branch. >> thank you, attorney general, and good afternoon to everybody. today marks a significant milestone in our efforts to bring justice to members and supporters of the terrorist group al-shabab,, and to deter others who would seek to follow their example. as the attorney general just noted, today's charges and arrests give us greater insight into the evolving nature of the terrorism threat we face. terrorism organizations like al- shabab, continue to radicalize and recruit u.s. citizens and others to train and fight with them and provide support for their violent activities. our success in identifying and charging these individuals is due to the dedication and commitment of law enforcement intelligence communities, specifically the joint terrorism task forces
the gulf contributions from the national security division led by assistant attorney general david chris and attorney's office in minnesota, alabama and the southern district of california. all of them are here with me on the stage today. i would now like to turn it over to the fbi executive director for the national security branch. >> thank you, attorney general, and good afternoon to everybody. today marks a significant milestone in our efforts to bring justice to members and...
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i would like to acknowledge my colleagues, chris hill, and the predecessors, whose leadership prepared the way for what we are announcing the iraq hour with -- we are announcing. the iraq i would be returning to is very different from the one i laughed. it is a very big mission as we transfer from a military lean to a broader approach. we are committed to a long-term relationship with our partner, iraq, and we are committed to doing what is necessary to bring that about. there are many challenges for us today. you mentioned oil. you mentioned intentions. there is also the issue we are concerned about. there is concern about nabors, trying to exercise undue influence on a rack at this time. as you also said, the sacrifices of the men and women in our armed forces and the more than 4000 who have lost their lives along with many personnel weigh heavily on us. our nation owes them a debt of gratitude. iraqis have also paid a heavy price. i believe we can now point to real progress that must be built upon through continued focus, dedication and the resources we need to carry the mission thr
i would like to acknowledge my colleagues, chris hill, and the predecessors, whose leadership prepared the way for what we are announcing the iraq hour with -- we are announcing. the iraq i would be returning to is very different from the one i laughed. it is a very big mission as we transfer from a military lean to a broader approach. we are committed to a long-term relationship with our partner, iraq, and we are committed to doing what is necessary to bring that about. there are many...
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ambassador to iraq chris hill again tonight on c-span at 8:00 p.m. eastern throughout this week, washington journal is taking a look at the financial crisis, its causes and impact. tomorrow, how consumers have been affected, live at 9:15 a.m. eastern here on c-span. funeral services for a former alaska senator ted stevens will be held tomorrow in anchorage. he died last week in a plane crash on the way to a fishing trip. we will have live coverage of the funeral service. that starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. book tv and primetime continues tonight with a focus on campaigns and elections. senators story and donald ritchie on the 1992 race on new dealer fdr. and kenneth ackerman on the assassination of america's 20th president, james garfield. this c-span networks provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is all available to you on television, radio, online, and on social media websites. find our content any time through c-span video library. we take c-span on the road with local content vehicle
ambassador to iraq chris hill again tonight on c-span at 8:00 p.m. eastern throughout this week, washington journal is taking a look at the financial crisis, its causes and impact. tomorrow, how consumers have been affected, live at 9:15 a.m. eastern here on c-span. funeral services for a former alaska senator ted stevens will be held tomorrow in anchorage. he died last week in a plane crash on the way to a fishing trip. we will have live coverage of the funeral service. that starts at 6:00...